Korean educators

Korean independence activist (1864-1945)

South Korean politician (1899-1966)

Korean politician (1876–1949)

Korean politician and academic (1881-1950)

South Korean educator, activist, journalist, entrepreneur and politician (1891-1955)

writer and painter from Korea (1896-1948)

independence activist and writer, Journalist, Communism activist, feminist, sex positive activists (1902-1991)

Korean philosopher and politician (1342-1398)

Korean novelist (1892–1950)

Korean scholar (1337-1392)

Korean writer, poet, journalist, Buddhist nun and activist (1896–1971)

South Korean politician (1898-1996)

Korean writer, poet, novelists (1896–1951)

Korean educator, writer, feminist and social activist (1899-1970)

Korean politician (1471-1527)

Vice President of South Korea (1868-1953)

Korean scholar-bureaucrat (1807-1877)

University chancellor (1896-1987)

Korean Joseon Dynasty scholar (1834-1906)

Korean political activist (1867-1932)

South Korean writer (1922-1986)

Korean independence activist (1895-1982)

Korean politician

South Korean politician (1894-1960)

Korean politician (1889-1945)

Donghak Peasant Revolution leader

Korean writer and politician (1886-1921)

Korean composer, conductor, violinist (1897-1941)

Member of Korean royal family, civil servant (1445 ?1449 – 1506)

Korean Neo-Confucian scholar, politician, educator, and writer of Korea's Joseon period (1548 -1631)

Korea politician and Neo-Confucian scholar (1347-1416)

South Korean politician (1899-1959)

politician of the Goryeo Dynasty and a Neo-Confucian scholar (1329–1398)

Korean philosopher Choi Chung (984 – October 13, 1068)

Mangong (, 1871–1946) or Song Mangong was a Korean Buddhist monk, independence activist, scholar, poet, writer, and philosopher during the Japanese occupation of Korea. Mangong was born in Jeongeup, Jeonbuk Province in 1871 and was ordained at the age of 14. Though he spent three years teaching Zen tradition in Mahayeon Temple in Keumkang Mountain and briefly served as the abbot of Magok Temple, he spent most of his life teaching Zen at Deoksung Mountain in Yesan, Chungnam Province. Mangong revitalized the Zen tradition of Korean Buddhism along with his teacher, Zen Master Kyongho.

Scholar & civil servant of Joseon (1574 – 1656)

Korean literary scholar (1893-1950)

South Korean painter (1906-1962)

politician and philosopher (1459-1512)

Korean educators, writers, social activists (1896–1980)

Korean politician (1894-1947)